Céline & Yannick in Peru

1 août 2007

Peruvian spanish

André (Yannick's Dad) mentionned a while ago that he was interested in differences between the spanish spoken in Spain and the spanish spoken here, in Peru... I discover more differences every week.... Grifo means tap in Spain but petrol station in Peru...

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1 août 2007

Life long lessons

This message was deleted for diplomatic reasons (the guerrilleros are after me):-) Stay tuned for more exciting stories, coming soon to a website near you: They know Paddington Bear and Aunt Lucy!! How peruvian workers are exploited by their bosses and...

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27 juillet 2007

It's a culture thing...

There are three things that are very typical of peruvian people towards strangers: 1) they will always ask if you like the peruvian food 2) they will always tell you not to trust any Peruvian (I've always wondered if they realised that somehow it included...

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27 juillet 2007

Felices Fiestas Patrias

Le 28 juillet c'est la fête nationale du Pérou, on fête l'indépendance obtenue en 1821. Il y aura, comme partout oú on fête l'indépendance, un défilé militaire, et aussi une histoire de 21 coups de canons tirés à l'aube. Je ne me sens pas très concernée...

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23 juillet 2007

New photos

New photos have been uploaded in the Barranco album as there weren't many photo of that district and we just so happened to be there yesterday for the National Pisco Day. I've also uploaded the last of the Santiago de Chile album, with views of Valparaiso....

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20 juillet 2007

An Exercise Book

I realise I've written an awful lot about Chile, and I'm not even done yet! To give you all a break I wanted to put a video of the view from the top of our building but the video website is no longer my friend (otherwise it would recognise me when I'm...

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8 juillet 2007

Electrical appliances

Because of having my third employee starting soon, I had to change things a bit in my office and at some point, of course, start dealing with the tons of cables that are going from all electrical appliances to the wall plug, as well as with the network...

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6 juillet 2007

A visa for me

OK, so Celine having (hopefully) her visa sorted out pretty soon, I had to find mine.Contacting the belgian embassy here didn't help. I wrote them an e-mail because I didn't find a telephone number and they replied the same day, telling me that they couldn't...

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6 juillet 2007

Monica the House Fairy

Well, we now have a maid one day a week. I hear you "Ooooh those show-offs, living the royal lives in style....". Well none of that, she only does the cleaning of our (seriously large) place, because I won't let her wash the clothes (someone else handling...

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2 juillet 2007

Holmi's birthday celebration & Jefferson + Co's visit

Not much to tell on this end of June/beginning of July. The month ended well, with a national holiday on the 29th of June. San Pedro was celebrated in coastal towns, as the saint of fishermen. In Callao and Chorrillos, there was a mass followed by a procession...

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